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tabby

[tab-ee] / ˈtæb i /


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Enter Sleek, the crabby tabby cat, and the Rev. Vicarious Cronch, the biblically recondite goat: interlocutors, speaking beasts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Since then, the white and tabby cat, officially introduced on Downing Street's website as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", has reigned supreme from the country's most photographed doorstep.

From Barron's Feb. 15, 2026

Undoubtedly, one sweet tabby will purr its way into your heart and become a “foster fail.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2025

It has been known for decades that it is genetics that gives orange tabby cats their distinctive colouring, but exactly where in the genetic code has evaded scientists till now.

From BBC May 15, 2025

Across the road, I’d spotted a flabby, gray-striped tabby who never left one particular window.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

She contends that cats—from tabbies to tigers—are quintessential products of evolution.

From Scientific American Oct. 4, 2023

I have plans to make a music room, a library, and a cat heaven for my three tabbies, but I updated the studio first with plans to rent it out.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2022

There are spotted shorthairs, eyes turned upward in remorse; blue-and-green tabbies with Groucho Marx eyebrows knitted in confusion.

From New York Times Aug. 19, 2021

“There are so many of them who need to be adopted that are typically tabbies or black cats or older cats,” she said.

From Washington Post Aug. 14, 2021

Although they do not grow to the immense size of some of our brown tabbies, still they are better hunters, much fiercer, and of a hardier constitution.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon




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